King louis

King Louis XIV, the Sun King

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  • Birth of King Louis XIV

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    His Royal Highness the Dauphin of France

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    His Majesty the King

  • Coming of age of majority

  • Marriage to Maria Therea, daughter of Philip IV

  • King Louis XIV assumed personal control of the reins of government

    Until this point, following the death of his father King XIII, the government was run by his mother Queen Anne

  • Grande Ordonnance de Procédure Civile

    Unified the civil procedure and legal proceedings across the colonies. Proposed baptismal, marriage, and a death records in the states registers rather than the churches.

  • Official move of the royal court to Versailles

  • Death of Maria Theresa

  • Marriage to Franciose d'Aubigne, marquise de Maitenon

  • Operation for anal fistual

    painful and took 2 months to heal

  • Founded Order of Saint Louis

    A reward for outstanding officers, roughly the forerunner to the Legion d'honneur

  • Death of King Louis XIV

    Died of gangrene at Versailles